Robert Hunter
Robert Hunter
Guitarist and lyricist best known for his longtime collaboration with jam band The Grateful Dead. Though he does not normally perform live with the band, he has co-written many of their most famous songs, including "Dark Star".
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSongwriter
Date of Birth23 June 1941
CountryUnited States of America
judging vote ready
When you get ready to vote, make sure you know what you are doing.
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I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools.
dream song fall
When it seems like the night will last forever, And there's nothing left to do but count the years, When the strings of my harp to sever, And stones fall from my eyes instead of tears... I will walk alone by the black muddy river, And dream me a dream of my own, I will walk alone by the black muddy river, And sing me a song of my own.
dream without-love
Without love in a dream it will never come true
doors worry looks
Well, the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry anymore. When life looks like Easy Street there is danger at your door.
writing matter depressive
At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle.
money loses just-one
Everything you gather is just one that you can lose.
heart giving foolish
But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart
sitting-down sitting bathtubs
Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.
brother expression unity
Destroy yourself physically and morally and insist that all true brothers do likewise as an expression of unity.
dark simple night
There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone.
couple infection nurses request soon spinal touch
I got really, really sick with a spinal infection that put me in a hospital for a couple of months, and it was touch and go. I had my guitar with me, and as soon as I got well enough to play, there was nothing else to do in that hospital. The nurses would come in and request songs.
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If you can even manage to tell exactly what a song is about, all you do is put that song in a box forever, and it loses its evocative power.
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A song doesn't happen as a whole verse; it happens linearly, line by line, almost word by word, phrase by phrase. And if each phrase, each line, has a proper emotional feel and connects to the line before it and the line after it, the song will be doing what it should be doing.